Mr. Speaker, Canadians from coast to coast to coast do not buy this kind of rhetoric.
The government's ideological attack on the CBC and Canadian voices has hit us hard in Manitoba. A vital link that connects us in northern Manitoba will be broken as CBC is planning to cut our program and station, North Country.
Respected Canadians, such as Peter Mansbridge and the minister of culture and heritage in Manitoba, Eric Robinson, got their start through North Country.
Will the government own up to its responsibility to stabilize and support the CBC so it can reinstate CBC's North Country?